Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Διαχρονική Ποιοτική Ανάλυση Περιεχομένου	Ανάλυση Αφηγήματος
Πεδίο	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι	Ποιοτικές Μέθοδοι
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2000s–2010s	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
Δημιουργός	Philipp Mayring (foundational QCA); longitudinal extension developed across qualitative health and social research traditions	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
Τύπος	Qualitative analytical method	Qualitative interpretive method
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Mayring, P. (2000). Qualitative content analysis. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(2), Art. 20.	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	LQCA, longitudinal QCA, repeated qualitative content analysis, panel qualitative content analysis	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
Συναφείς	3	6
Σύνοψη	Longitudinal qualitative content analysis (LQCA) applies systematic content analysis to text data gathered from the same participants, settings, or documents at two or more points in time. The method preserves the interpretive rigour of qualitative content analysis while adding an explicit temporal dimension, enabling researchers to track how meanings, experiences, categories, or discourse shift, deepen, or stabilise across time rather than producing a single-point-in-time description.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.